Kate Evans
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first heard Feb 2018
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New books and new stories here on ABC Radio National's The Bookshelf with me, Kate Evans.
Cassie McCullough can't be with us this time, but we're looking forward to more reading adventures with her next week.
A reminder, though, last week here on the Bookshelf, we launched this year's Radio National Top 100 Australian Books Countdown.
Fiction, history, non-fiction, children's books from the 18th century until now.
We'll bring you guides and discussions, reminders of books to think about and reread.
That's the long game and some very tall book stacks.
But right now, let's meet this week's guests.
Scholar and literary judge Bernadette Brennan, whose books include biographies of Helen Garner and Gillian Mears, and critic and interviewer BJ Silcox, whose latest essay, Mirror, Mirror, A Stranger in the Looking Glass, is in the current edition of the journal The Griffith Review.
Hello and hello.
Hello and hello.
Now, we were all at the Sydney Writers Festival last week and were all actually interviewing writers on stage.
How was it for you, BJ?
I am gloriously exhausted.
Well, it's time to name names.
I mean, what was a writer or book that you discovered or listened to there that has sort of energised you, Bernadette?
So Amitav Ghosh, the Indian writer, Cassie and I read his latest book, Ghost Eye.
I also saw him on stage and he was interviewed by Michael Williams.
And he was talking about his Ibis trilogy, which is historical work looking at the opium trade, which implicates the British Empire, the Dutch Empire, the East India Company.
And it made me want to go and read that.
his three books in that Ibis trilogy.
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